Built-in iSight produces heavy load (Tiger) using flash applications

On my MacBook the built-in iSight produces a heavy processor load when the camera is used in a flash application and the skype viedo beta.
The load is about 120% in Firefox, Safari and Skype, when the application connects to the iSight camera. In other applications (iChat, photoBooth) I don't have that problem. Under Windows, the same application in the same Browser (Firefox) works just fine with round about 11% processor load.
Does anyone else has this problem (maybe in other applications) ??
Mac Book 2Ghz 2Gb 100GB Mac OS X (10.4.7) BootCamp 1.1

I like the idea to put a camera in the computer.
I have not seriously used a macintosh since 1992, when I was in 2nd grade. Ever since I tinkered on my dad's mac now and then when he was not looking. But, I need to know where in the settings do I go to enable the built-in iSight camera to work on the web or any flash application
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